Stephen Michael Davis from TVAR (Tennessee Valley Archaeological Research) measures the length of the coffin unearthed at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

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Gerry Glenn Jones
Memphis Travel Examiner

When you dig, you never know what you might find, or who you might find. That is the case at the University of Mississippi Medical School in Jackson, Mississippi, where construction workers were recently digging to prepare for the building of a parking garage and dental school on an unimproved tract of their property.

According to reports in the Clarion-Ledger, the University has been sidelined in their construction of the parking garage and dental school by ghosts from the past. Not actual chain dragging, white sheet wearing ghosts, but a ghostly period in Mississippi's history, where ...